7. Mad Dog – The Raid
The Raid is a thing of beauty. Decried in some less imaginative circles for being repetitive and insufficiently narratively complex, it served as a wake up call to the action genre as compelling as when John Woo first gave Chow Yun Fat a pair of guns to play with.
Iko Uwais is, of course a grade 1 Badass in The Raid, but as a relatively clean-cut hero he loses first place to the utterly terrifying, phenomenally adept Mad Dog, who takes not just our hero but his brother as well to put down. His slight build and scraggly hair belie an incredible amount of talent and raw power, which Uwais’ boss discovers to his cost during a fight scene where we very quickly see the difference between good and great.
Most Bad-Ass Moment – the aforementioned fight – shooting a gun is like ordering take-out, indeed.
